Khyber53

Sure, watching until the bitter end. And if Rhule is coming back, I'll just have to watch through all of that crapfest as well. This is all a big circus, the good stuff will eventually come back, but man this is the longest clown act that I've ever seen. They need to all just climb back into that tiny clown car and hit the road. And take frikkin' Sideshow Bob with them!

The bottom five in the league are so bad, it would take decades of bad performance and scandals to get down to their levels. Just simply keeping the franchise here is enough to keep him out of that cesspool.

And Bill "Fish" Fisher is also great. He does some of the App State broadcasts as a fill-in. All around great guy, too.

Bengals over Cowboys.

Just a meal of sadness that the season has ended. Or, more specifically, that the season has ended the way it did. Veggie burgers and fries. Disappointment on a plate. Seems fitting.

It's not that we don't want to win games. It's just that we can't, haven't and won't while Rhule is the coach. This is the least inspiring iteration of the Panthers since the team's inception. We snuck in three wins early on against wounded, washed out teams. Then we've gone on to a streak of losses with a couple of quick wins against other wounded teams. Right now, we're basically just vultures. The Giants beat us. The team that had to go to their second choice of HC because we hired Rhule away from their grasp. That, right there, tells the whole tale of the tape. And that guy is on the hot seat for the Giants right now.

I'll outlast the bastard.

This quote from the story makes me think there's nothing to this but a pile of bullshit. Those weren't cheers IN FAVOR of Rhule. It was quite clearly: FIRE RHULE! FIRE RHULE! WTF? Is David Newton smoking crack or is his hearing just that bad?

When a team goes soft, rarely does its million dollar players ever complain. Why cause a ruckus when you could screw up your Club Med career?

This, 100%.

Or he just calls up a hooker or two for a celebratory massage and well, that's all she wrote for his career. The only thing dumber than Deshaun Watson is trading for him. Let him go to Las Vegas where the hookers are legal.

As one of those effectively phased out over the years, you're right.

That was a good listen!

I think Breer's got about as much info on what is happening in Carolina as do most big time sports writers -- not much at all. And as to what's going to happen, he's in the same boat as you and me. He obviously had much better connections into the other teams on his list. We're an enigma of a terrible team and paying out a monstrous contract versus the promise that things will improve mightily in year three.

The New York Times did so much to kill small town newspapers throughout the 1990s and early 2000s. They bought up small newspapers left and right, getting all of them within a region, consolidating staffs, eliminating presses and "streamlining" things until they had wrung the life out of it. Other big newspapers followed their path and ran into major troubles. The Boston Herald went under because of their overspending in this with little return. The big papers just never got what made those small town newspapers work and it shows. They've turned all of them into little cookie cutters of boredom. So, I guess now they're going to set about buying virtual magazines, too. Amalgamation just sucks.

Oh, there's the stats. Just like I expected. Our much vaunted defense gets a lot of mileage out of those first three games. They've sucked almost as much as the offense since then, sometimes worse.

Imagine how bad we'd look if we removed those first three games from the ratings...

The defense is soft. It has been all year, we just played some even softer, or more injured, teams early on. And we've played a few stinkeroo teams along the way as well. But that's a soft bunch. Not as soft as our offense, but still mushy. And Fangio? I always think a HC that just lost their position needs to take a full year before diving back in. They need some time for reflection, introspection and innovation. They can learn a lot from their failures, but they need time to process it.

Bunch of morons sitting around praising themselves for being smart.

He's right. And this Nixon is delusional.

Deep down, I think he's out of here on Monday. It'll be done and we'll move on from this sorry chapter.

In a dark, dark room, even a wee candle sheds light and hope.

But there may certainly be a very similar level of hubris between the two.